The question really becomes, who is liable for associated fees with unnecessary calls? The phone's owner? Or Apple?

The article is about ‘big’ drones but the iconic image of this war is of a ‘toy’ drone, like you’d buy your nephew for Christmas, with a vog grenade dangling beneath it.

I’m sure the good outweighs the bad… prob more accidental lock button 911 calls than anything

It isn’t but it draws out the apple bashing crowd in their masses for clicks and karma.

I wonder what drone-optimized grenades will look like in a couple years. 3d printed fins on a VOG are great, but I'm sure we can tweak it a little to make them fall a bit more straight.

Well, yea, frame it that way and it does seem small.

Frame it against total false calls and market share, and it looks like a much bigger issue.

Total false calls was 919, so this feature on the iPhone14 accounts for nearly 15% of them. A 15% growth in false calls due to a phone feature is noteworthy.

iPhone14 is pretty new and only has about 1% of the total mobile market. Assuming this issue is constant and the 14 gains the same share as predecessors, this might actually become the majority of false calls.

I read that as Seattle and got very confused

Yea I mean I didn’t even fall, just slowed down fast I guess? If you type emergency in the search bar in settings it pops right up under “auto call”

And some of those calls save peoples lives… the others just inconvenienced emergency services with an unnecessary call. Like a baby hitting the wrong buttons on a locked smart phone.

do you know how I can see if I have this feature? I ski pretty often too and fall often trying new stuff but dont wanna summon the entire department if I eat it

I was skiing this weekend and got a call from 911 in the lift line after a run asking if I was OK. I didn’t even know this was a thing on my phone. She said it happens all the time.

Negligible operating cost, if the other 99.6% resulted in medical attention reaching those needing it.

Sony phones all have an unlocked bootloader so there are plenty of options for running your own OS once you stop getting official updates (which is actually 3-4 years with the 1 5 10 range)

Ya no excuse for the lack of support. I can't drop that kind of money on a phone that's not garunteed to work more than 2 yrs. Especially for a phone that's probably not popular enough to have a lot of homebrew support either.

If they had better software support and pricing then I'd jump immediately.

Let's not get started about their camera auto mode either.

BUT they have an SD slot, headphone jack and fantastic media quality. And if you know how to handle the camera, you can get some high quality pictures out of it and even though it doesn't do as well as eg Samsung in low light conditions, it can put out some very natural images which samsung sadly never does.

Out of 24000 calls. So 0.4% of all calls.

Doesn't seem like a huge deal.

So we can go at it slowly then, got plenty of time

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Software support for their phones is abysmal like multiple other brands. 1.5-2 years of support and that's it.

you’re the absolute best.

and you’re even a CS:GO player.

what more could I ask for?

This phone is fucking crazy, never heard of it until now so this marketing campaign is working

I was in the development team for the x10 mini pro, makes me really happy to read that you loved it :) worked my ass off to get it to market, it was one of our first android phones and alot was on the table back then.

If they’re the same price I’d buy a Sony over a Samsung any day. Availability is the next question.